Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-15
Friday, April IS, 1887.
THE SOUTH.

Since the beginning of recorded
time, the footsteps of man in his
gradual conquest Of the globe have
Bonded westward. until In the presen'
remarkable aye welive to see the last
great field ~subjugated before his nd.
venturous ambition, aud the great
west nbliterated from the face of the
earth. Thirty years ago the Missouri
river marSed the western limit of uc-
cupation of civilized man, of this great
continent, and beyond it, stretching
TO the Pacific, lay n vast t~erra'incog.
nita Into hose trackless wilds only
The most daring sought to venture.
To-day four great transcoutinental
railways have been constructed across
its mighty expsnse of mountain, val
ley and plain, aud AN influx OF immi-
grafton from the hOrdes OF the over
crowded east hsvs flowed across and
POSSESSED il, until no new country al
be SAID TO exist. From the Pacific
coast the tide has already commenced
70 recede, and We see the advance Of
a great army turning eastward.
Whittier shall it go? To the Missis-
sippi states aud beyond the North At
lantic sesboard. The lands OF the
middle western states are all occu-
pied, and the farms OF barren New
England are exhausted, her factories
aud ship yards idle. To the north ?
The bitter cold OF u semi-Arctic cit.
mate precludes the possibility of any
extensis We or permanent settlement oi
so II .favored Il region. Where then :!
To the south. that noble sunny land
full Of the grandest possibilities, but
yet stricken aud PROSTATE Leu-s:h the
mailed heel Of the blOodiest war of
modern times, it holds up It's helpless
hands in piteous appeal 10 a common
country for strength aud succur. No
other land 0n earth has been 80 blessed
with the rich and varied sUurce
which contribute u the growth Ji
mighty commercial empires as the
southern states Of America. Uniting
within is bounds all the natural ele-
ments which centuries ago gave TO
Egypt, Greece, Persia and Arabia
their SUPREMACY Of wealth and power,
aud in later times placed France,
Italy aud spain among The forem, 81
nations Of the earth, the beautiful and
luxuriant south, adds many fair aud
noble gifts. Stretching from the 32nd
parallel to the Gulf, aud from the Mis-.
sissippi 10 the Atlantic, 1t embraces u
region wherein may be produced In
plentiful abundance, all the diverse
yield OF The temperate zone, and much
of The prolific growth and fruitage Of
the tropics. la the cultivation OF co..
ton, tobacco aud rice, three of the
greatest commodities OF commerce, 1,
is Unsurpass d, Of the two former grti,
cles IN fact supplying nine-tenths 81
the amount CONSUMED IN the entire
world. Yet thousand of acres Of III
lovely smiling lands lie idle, weeds
chuk IL shields aud highways alike
and ruin and d~esolatiOn almost every
where blot the fair landscape which
hut a few years ago Offered so mucl
delight to the eve Of the traveller II
tue serene and enhancing beauty Of
widespread and bountiful cultivation
The brain, muscle and energy which
have prepared the pathway of com
merce and civilization through IN
known lands aud desert wastes, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. aud dis
PEELED the myths Of the great west
will oon work a wondrOus revolution
in this the fairest of our broad domain
and the south will enter upon an eri
of prosperity, hitherto unknown 10 ID
history.-H. in Billings Gazette.